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...what he wants. Mondale believes that he can win the election by adding up minority groups and pandering ad nauseam to women's groups. It won him a party nomination, but he earned it with only percent of the primary vote--compared to 36 percent for Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.)--which makes him an even weaker nominee than George S. McGovern was in '72, and we all know what happened...
...whole, they were very successful. Over the weekend, Hart's advisers tentatively decided against pursuing a credentials challenge to some 600 Mondale delegates who Hart claims are "tainted" by support from political-action committees. Mondale also snared the endorsement of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. But the delicacy of Mondale's peacemaking task was illustrated by the machinations last week over the party platform. Of the 15 members of the drafting committee, a bare majority-eight-were Mondale supporters. They dutifully obeyed the commands of a rumpled, chain-smoking Mondale operative, Paul Tully, who hovered about the drafting table...
...compromise, the Mondale camp accepted passages of Hart rhetoric about the need for economic growth, but none of his specific legislative proposals. Wherever possible, everyone was accommodated, in true Democratic fashion. When the Hart camp asked that the platform committee include the goal of tripling the number of women in Congress by 1988, several delegates demanded tripling for blacks and Hispanics. Asked another: What about Native Americans? The solution was to call for more seats for all minorities...
...candidate who might best expand Mondale's base is Gary Hart. In a Harris poll released last week, the Colorado Senator performed 10 points better than Mondale in head-to-head competition against Reagan, losing by a mere 46% to 51%; Mondale trailed the President 41% to 56%. To Hart, such polling results argue that he, not Mondale, should be the presidential nominee. Hart no longer attacks Mondale personally. Indeed, his supporters are now trying to position their man as a vice-presidential candidate. In a speech at the National Press Club last week, Hart sounded like one, playing...
...observe it and the convention decide it." His campaign chairman, Richard Hatcher, told TIME Correspondent Jack White that he would rather see Reagan re-elected than "take one more day of disrespect from this party." Jackson, however, has promised to support the Democratic nominee. Said he: "Both Mondale and Hart are men I respect very much...